Wilshire Hotel

Miami Beach, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

The Wilshire Hotel, a streamline moderne structure completed in 1939 in Miami Beach, represents the sleek aesthetic that defined the era's forward-looking design principles. Built during Florida's interwar boom, the hotel exemplifies the stylistic vocabulary of streamline moderne, with its characteristic curved forms and horizontal lines suggesting speed and modernity.